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Paul Magnussen

Posts: 1805
Joined: Nov. 8 2010
From: London (living in the Bay Area)

Search problems again

If I search for “Rito y Geografía” (with or without the accent on the i), I get no results. If I search for just “Rito”, there they all are.

What gives?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2015 16:35:37

timoteo

Posts: 219
Joined: Jun. 22 2012
From: Seattle, USA

RE: Search problems again (in reply to Paul Magnussen)

Forum software like the ASP Playground software used here can never match the search capabilities of Google, so a trick is to use Google to search for "site:foroflamenco.com rito y geografia". Google knows how to deal with the accents and plurals and misspellings, and you can use Google's syntax like + to indicate words or phrases that must be found verbatim, or - to exclude words or phrases from the search result.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2015 17:50:39

Escribano

Posts: 6415
Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

RE: Search problems again (in reply to timoteo)

It's not the forum software, it's a Microsoft SQL Server full text index. More like keywords than phrases. Common words and stuff like "y" are not indexed to save space.

Also bear in mind that Google can't index members only areas.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jan. 16 2015 18:06:49